Archive for November, 2008
Diagnostics and strategy maps
Strategy mapping as a monitoring tool for organisational development initiatives
Social networking in L&D is it effective?
Building a learning community can add to the effectiveness of organisational learning, but often they fail, this articles explores some of the factors required for success.
Employee Engagement – the solution in difficult times?
Yet another weekend where the news broadcasts and the Sunday papers have been full of the economic doom and gloom. With many of the retail stores starting with 20% & 25% discounts with four weeks before Christmas you know things are changing.
If the key to survival is employee talent, then retention of talent has got [...]
Journey to World of Learning 2008 – Birmingham
Last week I spent 3 days in Birmingham, 2 of which at the NEC for the World of Learning..
But the journey did not quite go to plan. On Tuesday lunchtime I drove up to Birmingham for a meeting with a prospective client, potentially an interesting and leading edge piece of work… but on the M40, [...]
Pecha Kucha – An effective use for PowerPoint
A great structure for presentations of all forms
Twitter as a learning and development tool
Twitter – corporate friend or foe?
The world of business has slowly started to welcome and adapt to blogs, but will the SMS of the web 2.0 world do the same thing? Is there a place for short 140 character entries? Do we want to know that someone has walked the dog this morning? Certainly Twitter has taken the media world [...]
Starting change from the bottom – or without support from the top
On a change management forum recently I come across this interesting post:
Does anyone have any comments or experience about how it is possible to change the culture within a department without support from the top?
In fact the very top may actually be part, in no way all of, the cultural problem.
Cultural issues have been [...]
Evaluating the impact of training – another failure
On one forum I regularly visit was the question:
I am currently trying to answer a question for my course, but have hit a slight problem.The question I need to answer for my written project is:-Conduct an analysis to determine the effects that training has had on the success of your organisation.I was planning on writing [...]
